Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 12 65 NELSON MAKAMO SOUTH AFRICAN 1982– Untitled signed and dated 15 charcoal, pastel and acrylic sheet size: 120 by 150 cm R50 000 – 70 000 In the dynamic contemporary era in South Africa, Everard Read is at its core, a gallery dedicated to exhibiting artwork by South Africa’s finest modern and contemporary artists. The development of young artists’ careers is also a crucial component of the gallery’s mission. Neson Makamo joined Artist Proof Studio in January 2003 where he studied for 3 years and worked for another 2 years as sales representative and curator of the gallery. His extraordinary talent was recognised by Everard Read Gallery where he has held three exceptionally successful exhibitions. This promising artist is someone who is making waves in the artworld, and Everard Read is proud to champion Nelson Makamo to support the next generation of young talent emerging through the APS education programme. Nelson Makamo , born in 1982, is an artist and printmaker from Nylstroom, Limpopo. He participated in a number of local exhibitions in Limpopo before attending Artist Proof Studio in 2002 where he received his APS Certificate in Advanced Professional Printmaking in 2005. Nelson worked as Gallery Assistant for the APS before becoming a professional artist. He held his first solo show at the Obert Contemporary Art Gallery in Melrose Arch in 2005 and has exhibited locally and internationally, in the Netherlands and Italy. Nelson was selected as Art South Africa’s seventh ‘Bright Young Thing’ in 2007. Nelson says that ‘My work is my life, pain and joy from the first piece to the last piece, and in my work I am a storyteller, a narrator. I tell stories of places I have been, people I have met, but most importantly, I beautify everything that is before my eyes’. DONATED BY THE ARTIST for the APS Education Endowment Fund